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HouseMenu (1.4.1) submenus in IE6

Last Post 04/01/2009 8:46 AM by Lee Sykes. 8 Replies.

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mattb

Nuke Newbie
Posts:7

03/26/2009 4:38 PM
Evening All, I was wondering if anyone can me with a problem I'm having on my site (http://www.aquiesceuat.com/haa/)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.aquiesceuat.com/haa/) with IE6 and HouseMenu (1.4.1) My menus and submenus are displaying fine in IE7,FF,Opera and Chrome but for some reason they are not appearing in IE6. Infact even the rollover on the top level menu options is not working (if you browse to http://www.aquiesceuat.com/haa/ you'll see the menu on the left which should turn black when rolled over). As I've said the problem is in IE6 only - no mouseover js event seems to fire meaning no submenus as well (I'm guessing). I've looked around the web and I've tried all suggestions (e.g.: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community...ault.aspx) but I cannot get this working. Has anyone else seen this problem? Really is wierd - but I know some regard IE6 as the work of the devil :-) and I am willing to believe IE6 is at fault here! Thanks in advance for any advice .... Matt

Joseph Craig
DNN MVP
Posts:11667

03/26/2009 7:04 PM
I don't know if IE6 is the work of the devil, but ... I recently finished a website makeover and the client's internal standard is IE6 ... and with a hundred or so employees using the site. So ... we had to work around a LOT of issues because of IE6. Are you sure that the IE6 that you are using has javascript support implemented and enabled?

Joe Craig, Patapsco Research Group Complete DNN Support

mattb

Nuke Newbie
Posts:7

03/28/2009 3:51 AM
Hi Joe, Thanks for the reply. Yes scripting is enabled in the browser. Thanks, Matt

Joseph Craig
DNN MVP
Posts:11667

03/28/2009 8:29 AM
Oh, if you switch the site to a standard skin, does that work in IE6?

Joe Craig, Patapsco Research Group Complete DNN Support

mattb

Nuke Newbie
Posts:7

03/29/2009 7:56 AM
Hi Joe, Thanks for the suggestion - I switched back to the "Minimal Entropy" skin and I did get the submenus appearing. Spurred on by that I started to dig a little deeper and I think I've almost fixed the IE6 issue (one really minor niggle but I'm working on it!). From what I can see the underlying problem is IE6's lack of support for li:hover. Infact I noticed HouseMenu includes a handy js library called "skinobject.js" in DesktopModules/HouseMenuSkinObject which dynamically reassigns the CSS class for 's (to "sfhover" - I guess "sf" as the HouseMenu seems to take inspiration from the Suckerfish menu). You can then code specific "sfhover" CSS classes. Unfortunately I couldn't see this HouseMenu js in my markup so I had to manually add the functions to my default.aspx so they would be used. I'm not alone in this as you can see from this post (http://www.houseofnuke.com/Forums/t...ault.aspx) on the HouseMenu site. If anyone can shed light on why this might be I'd love to know why. This is only half the story though as you only want to use these classes for IE6 I had to put a conditional comment to check for IE6 in my default.aspx as I don't want to have to use the js functions unless I need to (IE7,FF,Safari,Opera & Chrome were fine). I won't bore you with the code but you can see this by viewing the source at http://www.aquiesceuat.com/haa">www.aquiesceuat.com/haa Time for nice cup of Yorkshire tea and a sit down I think! Thanks again. Cheers, Matt P.S. Why IE6 maybe not be the work the of the devil as I said earlier it certainly is a troublesome little soul that deserves to have its legs slapped for being so bad standards wise - unfortunately 15% of my site traffic is still coming from it so I can't ignore it :-(

Joseph Craig
DNN MVP
Posts:11667

03/29/2009 10:44 AM
I would also suggest looking at Snapsis' Nav Menu. I find it a lot easier to use.

Joe Craig, Patapsco Research Group Complete DNN Support

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Staff

Nuke Master VI
Posts:4945

03/31/2009 11:39 AM
Hi Matt, I seem to recall testing hover over menus in the HouseMenu with not much success, but with snapsis they display ok without problems. So whenever I need a hover over menu I always use snapsis and tend to just use HouseMenu on static menus.

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mattb

Nuke Newbie
Posts:7

03/31/2009 4:36 PM
Cheers Guys, I'll certainly check out snapsis - thanks for the tip. I certainly won't make the "everything will be ok in IE6" mistake in the future! I though I was being reasonable thorough by using http://browsershots.org/ to check my sites but of course that didn't highlight the hover problem - doh! One tool I found useful is ietester (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IET.../HomePage) which is cool util for testing in different versions of IE. Certainly helped me out. I guess the other option is for multi-ie versions is having VM's with a different versions of the browser? Out of interest what approach do you chaps who are knocking out DNN site on a more regular basis than me use? Cheers, Matt

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Staff

Nuke Master VI
Posts:4945

04/01/2009 8:46 AM
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